The University of Florida Libraries are now partner libraries in an innovative and extremely exciting new in-library eBook lending program. The original news release from Internet Archive is copied below and it explains the program. In-Library eBook Lending Program Launched Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop Joint Collection of 80,000+ eBooks To Extend Traditional In-Library...
News posting from here. Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative December 13, 2010 – The Berkman Center for Internet and Society today announced that it will host a research and planning initiative for a “Digital Public Library of America.” With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Berkman will convene a large...
News Release: Flagler receives prestigious ‘Save America’s Treasures’ grant (December 17, 2009) St. Augustine, Fla. — Flagler College recently received a prestigious grant to help preserve drawings from the architects of the treasured National Historic Landmark Hotel Ponce de Leon. Flagler College President William T. Abare Jr., Ed.D., announced receipt of the prestigious “Save...
Press Release from FSU: FSU’s PALM Center to partner in Library of Congress grant The PALM Center at the Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies is part of a team that has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the Library of Congress. The collaborative project, Successfully Teaching Educators about Primary Sources,...
The Wakulla News from October 22, 2009 has a news story on their archives in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library.
The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery, has just been released by Microsoft Research and is available for download under a Creative Commons license here. The book is edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kirstin Tolle and it’s being released in conjunction with the Microsoft E-science meeting being held at Carnegie-Mellon.
While I’ve read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, I’d only ever seen it in book format, until now. It’s always nice to find exciting new materials from the UF Digital Collections, but it’s equally wonderful to find amazingly interesting versions of familiar materials, especially with cover page political cartoons like this.
Chronicling America, the amazing historical newspaper digital collection from the Library of Congress and NEH, has added “Topics“. With over a million pages of historical newspapers online, “Topics” are an essential need–helping users who aren’t sure what they’re looking for find a way into so much content and helping to showcase some of the...
The Robert Goldwater Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a resource blog and earlier this week they blogged about the UF Digital Collections and the Between the Beads Exhibit!
The Florida Digital Newspaper Library has grown enormously in the past year, adding 384,238 pages since July 1 for a grand total of 504,773 pages! Those many pages capture history in the making, including New Year’s Day across the years and across Florida. Front-page news covers the then-current events, often including a New Year’s...